Bateau
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The harbor wall is warm under your palms as you lean over the edge. A bowl of sliced tangerines and bitter orange sits on the bench beside you, the bright citrus oils misting into the air every time the breeze picks up. Grapefruit adds a sharp bite to the air, and then a sudden splash of sea water lands on your wrist, cool and saline. Carnation pushes through the damp air with a clove-like floral edge that feels unexpectedly proper here among the ropes and the gulls.
Patchouli drifts in next, earthy and damp like the wooden planks that have spent years soaking up the tide. Neroli floats above it, clean and white, while artemisia brings a bitter green touch that keeps the air from turning too sweet. The scent sits in the space between the boat masts, mingling with the tar and the old rope, a herbal cloud that feels entirely at home among the morning activity on the dock.
Amber begins to glow as the sun climbs higher, warm and resinous against the cedar that smells of freshly cut planks stacked nearby. Vetiver adds a grassy, rooty dryness that grounds the entire scene, and frankincense lends a faint wisp of church-like smoke that curls upward and disappears into the clear sky. The air is thick with wood and resin, a sturdy foundation beneath the bright citrus that still lingers near your collar.
You take a deep breath and the cedar seems to grow taller around you, the vetiver rooting deeper into the ground beneath the bench while the amber continues to radiate against your skin, mixing with the last traces of salt and the fading memory of the morning fruit, the whole scene held together by that steady
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